 | Louis Ray Wells - Industries - 1922 - 650 pages
...the state of Virginia to build a road across the mountains. "The Western settlers," he wrote, . . . "stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way." ' Although Virginia did not follow this advice, the Cumberland Road, or National... | |
 | Social sciences - 1922 - 518 pages
...those powers, in a commercial way? . . . -1 The western settlers (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. They have looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards .... threw difficulties... | |
 | Louise Burnham Dunbar - Monarchy - 1922 - 614 pages
...himself, a few years earlier, had written, "The western states (I speak now from my own observation) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them either way."*4 It has been pointed out that certain leaders of the Ohio Company such... | |
 | Joseph Macaulay Lowe - Cumberland Road - 1925 - 296 pages
...English again by the highway of the lakes and the St. Lawrence. "The western settlers," he declared, "stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way." He returned home to push again with renewed vigor the project which had in... | |
 | Carl Russell Fish - United States - 1925 - 696 pages
...other powers, and formidable ones too. . . . The Western settlers (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way." Commercial troubles. — The people along the coast were not much better... | |
 | Theodore Christian Blegen, Bertha Lion Heilbron - Minnesota - 1927 - 530 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. The Western states (I speak now from my own observation) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any wa-y." Ample evidence that he read the signs aright can be found in the correspondence... | |
 | 1922 - 616 pages
...himself, a few years earlier, had written, "The western states (I speak now from my own observation) stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them either way."64 It has been pointed out that certain leaders of the Ohio Company such... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1912 - 422 pages
...opinion, the gift of prophecy to foretell. "The western settlers (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them anyway. They have looked down the Mississippi, until the Spaniards, very impoliticly... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 884 pages
...to Benjamin Harrison on October 10, 1784. "The Western States, (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot: the touch of a feather, would turn them any way."3 What made the difference, what completely reversed the situation, was both... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 2005 - 472 pages
...consequence of their having formed close commercial connexions with both or either of those powers? . . . The western settlers (I speak now from my own observations,)...stand, as it were, upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way.1 But even worse than breaking away, the westerners might choose to join up... | |
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The western States (I speak now from my own observation) stand as it were upon a pivot. The touch of a feather would turn them any way. 
